Java AWS Developer - Backend Developer

Role: Java AWS Developer

Location: Chicago, IL

Must-Have Skills

AWS

Java

Spring Boot

SQL

Description

Required Education • Bachelors Degree

 Required Skills

• Strong AWS expertise – designing and operating cloud-native, highly available distributed systems

• Advanced Java and/or Kotlin in production environments

• Spring Boot – building microservices and REST APIs (Spring Web/MVC, dependency injection, configuration, actuator/health checks)

• Microservices architecture and distributed systems patterns (service boundaries, resiliency, fault tolerance)

• RESTful API design and implementation with documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)

• SQL and relational databases – data modeling, query tuning, performance optimization

• NoSQL / non-relational data stores (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra)

• CI/CD pipelines and build/deploy automation (quality gates, repeatable releases)

• Data streaming / asynchronous messaging – event-driven patterns (e.g., Kafka)

• Observability – logging, metrics, tracing, and production troubleshooting / incident investigation Soft Skills (Must-Have)

• Strong technical communication skills – able to clearly explain complex designs and trade-offs to engineers, product owners, and managers

• Collaborative mindset – ability to work effectively across teams on shared architectures and dependencies

• Technical leadership and ownership – driving decisions and follow-through on complex engineering problems

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking – especially in debugging, production support, and performance issues

• Ability to balance technical depth with delivery – making pragmatic decisions aligned with business priorities

• Comfortable participating in Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) while remaining primarily hands-on Job Requirements

• Provide deep technical leadership for the design and implementation of Java-based, cloud-native systems on AWS

• Define service architecture, data flows, and integration patterns to meet strict scalability, availability, and security requirements

• Drive architectural decisions across microservices, event-driven, and asynchronous processing patterns

• Ensure clear service ownership and well-defined contracts between services

• Define standards for infrastructure-as-code, resiliency, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation

• Proactively identify architectural bottlenecks, scalability constraints, and technical debt

• Lead development of core backend services using modern Java frameworks and AWS-native patterns

• Design and implement RESTful and event-based APIs

• Build message-driven processing and distributed data management solutions

• Guide adoption of AWS services including managed compute, messaging, storage, and databases

• Investigate and resolve defects, performance issues, and production incidents

• Implement fixes and improvements to ensure system stability and reliability

• Support reliable operation of distributed systems in production through observability, logging, metrics, and tracing

• Review pull requests and lead technical design discussions

• Define architecture and implementation standards for the team

• Establish technical best practices for CI/CD automation, observability, and production troubleshooting

• Work closely with the engineering team to guide design and implementation of Java-based services on AWS

• Collaborate with other engineering teams to align on APIs, integrations, and shared cloud architecture

• Partner with Product Owners and engineering managers to translate requirements into technical solutions

• Align execution with delivery priorities

• Participate in architecture reviews and integration discussions

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, and retrospectives

• Attend necessary technical and operational calls